Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-05-06
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

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county, has curiosity in the shape of
a colt with five feet.
7. ]. Long, of Boisfort, sold a yoke
of fine large cattle, to a man on Skoo-
KUN chuck for 1926.
Most of the fall sown wheat of East
ern Washington is already waving
eight inches above ground.
Ice formed to the thickness of one
fourth of an inch at Ellensburg, east
of the mountains, April 18th.
1t is said that Yakima county has
nearly one-fourth of the 800 bales of
hops yet unmarketed in the Territory.
Miss Dora Small writes from Maine
to her father at Walla Walla that snow
is five feet deep in the Pine Tree State.
Out of 20 cases on the last district
court docket in Clarke county, nine
were applications for divorce. All but
one were granted.
Sixty five cents bushel has been
offered for the coming crop of wheat,
free on board cars at Walla Walla,
says the Journal.
The Nugget mentions a report that
a Seattle man will shortly start an
open, first-class saloon in Chehalis, in
defiance of the prohibition vote last
June.
John G. Seavy, an "old-timer" of
Port Gamble, was struck and fatally
injured by flying board while work
ing in the mill, last week, and died on
the 10Th.
Exchange: Not even the old settlers
can account for the backwardness of
this Spring. The cold and rainy
weather holds on longer than it has for
many years.
The heavy decapod engines, built
specially for the mountain work on the
Cascade division of the Northern Pa
cific, climb the grades and stiff pulls
with little effort.
According to the Chronicle, a man
from Maine has bought IL 600 acres of
land about twelve miles up the river
from Spokane Falls and will engage in
the horse business on large scale.
Walla Walla Journal of Wednesday :
Five men subscribed 81 1000 each, this
morning, toward the erection of new
Masonic building. The effort to raise
$13, 500 for this purpose will no doubt
succeed.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany is prospecting the country from
Olympia, via Shelton, to the lower
Chehalis country, with q. view, if
deemed advisable, of constructing a
telegraph line.
One of four tramps who attempted
to board moving train at Spokane
Falls, last week, missed his hold and
falling under the wheels was ground
to pieces. He was intoxicated ut the
time of the accident.
Judges Jones and Allyn hold that
all indictments found by female juries
were void, that the decision of the Su-
preme Court was binding, that all
lower courts must follow the ruling.
This makes the Supreme Court a unit
on this question.
Capt. Stone, a practical axe maker,
recently from Maine, is temporarily in
the employ of E. D. Smith, of Lowell.
Upon the arrival of his family from
the East he will, SO it is reported,
make tour of the Sound in search
Of a permanent location for factory.
Vancouver Register: If there is any
thing that will incite an American cit
izen to deeds of violence in Kidding
this country of Chinese it is the fact
that female white children of tender
age are eagerly sought after by the
Mongolians, who ship them over to
China, there to be placed in the har-
ems Of the wealthy celestials.
The Pasco bridge for the Northern
Pacific Columbia river crossing, will
be built, it is said, of wood and iron
on the cantilever principle. The piers
will be made first of wood filed in
with rock, and in time will be covered
with iron caissons interfilled with con-
crete. The spans will be $50 feet long
and the whole bridge little over 5000
feet in length.
The Seattle Voice reports that not
long ago a passenger found half a
dozen Cinnamon slowed away amongst
some cattle on the steamer Idaho, on
the way to Seattle, and was told by the
purser that they got on board at What.
com. AS there are no Cinnamon in
WhatcOm county, the Voice thinks the
Celestials walked across the border
from British Columbia to Whatcom
in violation of the restriction act.
Major Alfred F. Sears, of Portland
arrived at Tacoma, few days ago, and
left Immediately for the front, says
the Ledger. He goes for the pur.
pose of accommodating and on bust
ness relative to survey for the
Northern Pacific Railroad Com
pany of line from point on Green
river in a northeasterly direction to